No reason was given for the cancellation of the "Fame Kills" tour, but following Kanye's stage invasion during Taylor Swift's Best Female Video award acceptance speech at September's MTV Video Music Awards, the rapper revealed he wanted to take some time off.

"I need to, after this, just take some time off and analyze how I'm [going to] make it through the rest of this life, how I'm [going to] improve and because I am a celebrity and that's something I have to deal with," Kanye previously told Jay Leno on the inaugural "Jay Leno Show" last month. "And if there's anything I can do to help Taylor in the future or help anyone I like, 'cause you know, I [want to] live, this thing is hard."